The Ocarina is a brilliantly simple instrument and belongs to that small group of musical instruments, which includes the recorder and ukulele, that can encourage groups of people regardless of musical ability to simply have a go! Given the Ocarina only has 4 holes it is remarkable that you can achieve a full diatonic octave - D - D - and ensures that a surprising variety melodies can be produced.

It is the ideal classroom or group instrument and comes in a variety of bright, attractive colours. The plastic is high quality and solid throughout and the soft rope goes over your neck and prevents the ocarina being dropped.

There is a good selection of accompanying music available and great value quantity discounts for purchasing in bulk.

Jon, primary education specialist, reviewed the OC-OR ocarina on 25th January 2016: The ocarina is an extraordinarily little instrument really. It is thought that the origins date back 12000 years or so, and whilst traditional versions tend to be made from clay, today, for consistency and strength, plastic is the most common material. The Ocarina Workshop model that we have hear is made from a single piece of molded plastic and the orange of this particular version is clear and striking. Although the ocarina is often dismissed as a toy, you can in fact play an entire chromatic scale which means that huge number of melodies can be played with ease. As it only has 4 holes, it is easy to learn and using simplified directions which show which holes to close, it is easy to play from music. There are plenty of music books out there too so no excuse to not get the best from it.
A marvelous little instrument, cheap, certainly cheerful and surprisingly musical too!